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Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1931

  • Property: includes every form, character and kind of property, real, personal, and mixed, tangible and intangible, corporeal and incorporeal, and every share, right, title or interest therein or thereto, and every right, privilege, franchise, patent, copyright, trade-mark, certificate, or other evidence of ownership or interest; bonds, notes, judgments, credits, accounts, or other evidence of indebtedness, and every other thing of value, in possession, on hand, or under the control, at any time during the calendar year for which taxes are levied, within the State of Louisiana, of any person, firm, partnership, association of persons, or corporation, foreign or domestic whether the same be held, possessed, or controlled, as owner, agent, pledgee, mortgagee, or legal representative, or as president, cashier, treasurer, liquidator, assignee, master, superintendent, manager, sequestrator, receiver, trustee, stakeholder, depository, warehouseman, keeper, curator, executor, administrator, legatee, heir, beneficiary, parent, attorney, usufructuary, mandatary, fiduciary, or other capacity, whether the owner be known or unknown; except in the cases of fire, life, or other insurance companies, the notes, judgments, accounts, and credits of nonresident persons, firms, corporations, partnerships, associations, or companies doing business in the State of Louisiana, originating from the business done in this state, are hereby declared to be property with its situs within this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1702

A.  Assessments throughout the state shall be subject to review by boards of reviewers, consisting of the governing authorities in each parish.

B.  Beginning January 1, 1978, assessments in each parish throughout the state shall be subject to review by a board of review, consisting of the governing authority of each parish.  In each parish, the assessor and/or his designated representative(s) shall act in a nonvoting advisory capacity to the board of review during the hearings on cases involving assessments of property.

Amended by Acts 1970, No. 232, §1; Acts 1974, No. 149, §1; Acts 1975, No. 773, §1; Acts 1977, No. 381, §1, eff. July 10, 1977; Acts 1977, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 34, §1, eff. Aug. 18, 1977; Acts 2006, No. 622, §8, eff. Dec. 11, 2006.